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1552 articles available in total starting from 19/03/2008. Last article published on 30/07/2025.

Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah are back in Belgium for Patsers

Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah are back in Belgium for Patsers

The filmmaking duo, who proved itself in Hollywood with the success of the last two entries in the Bad Boys franchise, is about to shoot the sequel to Gangsta  

11/07/2024 | Production | Funding | Belgium/Netherlands

Claire Burger  • Director of Foreign Language

Interview: Claire Burger • Director of Foreign Language

“I wanted to show beautiful things amongst the youth, even if the current moment is complicated”

The French director talks about her second solo feature film, a vivid and subtle portrait of today’s youth  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Leila Albayaty  • Director of From Abdul to Leila

Interview: Leila Albayaty • Director of From Abdul to Leila

"My father’s singing is a utopian message vis-à-vis our history"

The filmmaker chatted with us about her documentary which is drawn and sung in the first person but which resonates in many ways  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Angie Obeid  • Director of Yalla, Baba!

Interview: Angie Obeid • Director of Yalla, Baba!

"The biggest challenge was being both the director and a character in my story"

The filmmaker chatted with us about her documentary, following a road trip between Brussels and Beirut with her father, journeying through the history of their family, Europe and the Middle East  

05/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Alexe Poukine  • Director of Who Cares?

Interview: Alexe Poukine • Director of Who Cares?

“Is it possible to be benevolent in an abusive system?”

Cineuropa met with the Belgian director, whose new documentary focuses on caregivers’ sense of empathy and the way in which institutions prevent them from applying it  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Samira El Mouzghibati  • Director of (Y)our mother

Interview: Samira El Mouzghibati • Director of (Y)our mother

“Freedom is something very vast, we are constantly redefining what it means”

The filmmaker talks about his first documentary feature, an intimate feminine film about the freedoms we look for and those that we grant ourselves  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Jim’s Story scoops Grand Prize in the 7th BRIFF’s International Competition

Jim’s Story scoops Grand Prize in the 7th BRIFF’s International Competition

Two documentaries triumphed in the National Competition and in the Directors’ Week: Who Cares? by Alexe Poukine and The Mountains by Christian Einshøj  

04/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024 | Awards

Review: Yalla, Baba!

Review: Yalla, Baba!

Angie Obeid presents a spatial-temporal road trip which creates space for a father-daughter conversation while chasing ghosts in Europe and the Middle East  

01/07/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Review: From Abdul to Leila

Review: From Abdul to Leila

With her unclassifiable sung and animated documentary, Leila Albayaty delivers a musical tale all about herself and a family-focused quest in search of her own story  

26/06/2024 | BRIFF 2024

Shoot imminent for Spleen Off by Claude Schmitz

Shoot imminent for Spleen Off by Claude Schmitz

The Belgian filmmaker is about to reunite with Rodolphe Burger and Francis Sœtens, the offbeat cops from The Other Laurens, who will be getting a new case  

19/06/2024 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France

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